Amazon Offers AI Technology Powering Alexa to AWS Users

Amazon.com, Inc. 's AMZN Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made Amazon Lex, the machine learning technology behind Alexa, available to all customers. Amazon Lex algorithms facilitate natural language understanding, automatic speech recognition and text to speech. Amazon is now offering these technologies as a fully managed service. With Amazon Lex, developers can build conversational apps easily, which were otherwise extremely difficult to create as these involved complicated deep learning algorithms on enormous amount of data. Moreover, the integration of Amazon Lex with AWS Lambda (Amazon's event-driven, serverless computing platform) will enable developers to run serverless codes, apply business logic and fetch data from enterprise applications and AWS services like Amazon DynamoDB.